Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford. - James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. -- The San Francisco Chronicle

Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. -- Publishers Weekly It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we don't already know. In Taking Aim at the President , Geri Spieler is more than up to the task. The byzantine tale of Sara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups -- including the federal government -- exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that it's all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Jane's story to something significantly more than a footnote to history. --Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History. -- Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford. - James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. -- The San Francisco Chronicle

Winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival Award (Wild Card category)

Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. - Publishers Weekly

It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we dona (TM)t already know. In Taking Aim at the President , Geri Spieler is more than up to the task.The byzantine tale ofSara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups - including the federal government - exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that ita (TM)s all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Janea (TM)s story to something significantly more than a footnote to history. - Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History. - Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moorea (TM)s attack on Gerald Ford. - James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane

Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. - The San Francisco Chronicle

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford.
--James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane

Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. Publishers Weekly

It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we don't already know. In Taking Aim at the President, Geri Spieler is more than up to the task. The byzantine tale of Sara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups - including the federal government - exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that it's all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Jane's story to something significantly more than a footnote to history. Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford.
James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane

A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History. Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent

Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. The San Francisco Chronicle

Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. Publishers Weekly

It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we don't already know. In Taking Aim at the President, Geri Spieler is more than up to the task. The byzantine tale of Sara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups - including the federal government - exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that it's all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Jane's story to something significantly more than a footnote to history. Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford.
James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane

A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History. Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent

Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. The San Francisco Chronicle

Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. --Publishers Weekly

It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we don't already know. In Taking Aim at the President, Geri Spieler is more than up to the task. The byzantine tale of Sara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups - including the federal government - exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that it's all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Jane's story to something significantly more than a footnote to history. --Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather

Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore's attack on Gerald Ford.
--James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane

A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History. --Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent

Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating. --The San Francisco Chronicle